Mouse Over During Powerpoint Presentation

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William Aris

I have a map in which I have placed a number of text boxes
that denote the names of national parks and their location
on the map.
What I would like to be able to do is when the slide show
is being presented and someone asks about a specific park
then I could move the mouse over the text box and it would
popup a label/text box(?)that would provide information
about that park. When I move the mouse away from that
park, then that popup box would be hidden once again. Is
this possible with Powerpoint?
 
The solution worked very well.
Thank you.
Is there any way of formatting the text in the Screentip
like one can do with the text boxes? I would like to
centre a line, then start a new line with columns of
information.
Like this:

Changes to Date ($'000s)
Additions Deletions Upgrades
$2435.7 $3486.3 $4321.7
 
No. But you can format a normal text box and animate it to appear when you
click on a *hotspot*. You can make a hotspot by creating a shape to cover
the pertinent area of the image and animate it to appear on mouse click.
Then animate the textbox to appear automatically with the previous animation
(the shape). The drawback to this is that it isn't a mouse over effect and
it can't be repeated like the mouse over can.
 
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